The Economist / Americas

1. El Boletín newsletter: Get ready for Bolsonaro the sequel

   Ana Lankes, our Brazil bureau chief, on how a family plagued by scandal staged a comeback in Brazil

2. The Bolsonaro comeback in Brazil

   Voters are all but sure to make Flávio Bolsonaro the next president

3. A new museum for Mexico’s armed forces prompts a backlash

   Some worry about the army’s ever expanding role in the state

4. The world’s busiest migration route has gone quiet

   Donald Trump’s immigration curbs have changed the movement of people throughout a hemisphere

5. For the first time Latin Americans prefer China to America

   Donald Trump’s interventions are unpopular, but tough talk on security resonates

6. The dictator’s laboratory: Nayib Bukele is pushing AI hard

   He hopes it will improve health care and education, and buoy up his popularity  

7. The love-in between Donald Trump and Delcy Rodríguez

   Their rapport bodes ill for Venezuelan democracy

8. Mark Carney hopes to redirect Canada’s economy around Donald Trump

   His Europe trip was one part of a bigger plan

9. Jamaica’s churches have become climate activists

   They are powerful, conservative, and green

10. Brazil’s gangsters: less murder, more money

    Crime is softer, but it affects more Brazilians than ever before

11. Women lead brutal lives in Colombia’s illegal gold-mining regions

    They survive on what men discard, and are exploited by them

12. When the defenders of democracy turn their backs on it instead

    Brazil’s top court saved the country’s young democracy. Now it is strangling it through corruption

13. Javier Milei’s liberal experiment is struggling

    In an interview with The Economist, Argentina’s president is unyielding

14. Javier Milei’s outburst over the Falklands is a mark of weakness

    In an interview with The Economist, Argentina’s president stirs up tensions with Britain 

15. A prawn superpower rises

    Ecuador’s farmers have embraced technology to great effect

16. The presidential candidate Brazil’s authorities tried to ban

    Renan Santos, a fast-talking liberal with a rock band, models himself after Argentina’s Javier Milei

17. America has laid claim to a fifth of Venezuela’s oil

    The deal could give both countries reason to forestall a democratic transition

18. The problem with the world’s oldest mummies

    The burial rituals of a culture that thrived 7,000 years ago have ramifications today

19. Donald Trump’s military expansion in Panama makes little sense

    It is warping the neutrality which protects the country’s canal

20. The costs of defying Donald Trump are mounting for Canada

    But the waiting game is Mark Carney’s only move